Church of

St. Patrick

in Armonk

P.O. Box 6,

29 Cox Avenue,

Armonk, N.Y. 10504

(914) 273-9724

HOLY TRINITY

MAY 22, 2016

MASSES: MAY. 21—MAY 29, 2016

Sat 5/21 9:00

5:30

Mother’s Day Novena 5

Fr. John Quinn (D)

Sun 5/22 8:30 Terry Hollingsworth (D)

10:30 Mother’s Day Novena 6

12:00 People of the Parish

Mon 5/23 8:30 Catherine Daly (D)

Tue 5/24 8:30 Guy Magrone (D)

Wed 5/25 8:30 Salvatore Capossela (D)

Thu 5/26 8:30 Theresa and John O’Donnell (D)

Fri 5/27 8:30 John and Emma Hollingsworth (D)

Sat 5/28 9:00

5:30

Mother’s Day Novena 7

Dolores and Thomas Dillulio (D)

Sun 5/29 8:30 People of the Parish

10:30 Mother’s Day Novena 8

12:00 Fr. Fernando Hernandez (L)

Calendar:

Collection: May 14/15: $3,991.50 in 85 envelopes

Special Collection this weekend for Memorial in

Honor of Fr. Quinn

(No Collection for Lawn Care)

ParishPay for April Regular Collection: $7,862

Please consider using Parish Pay

Thank you for your generosity

SUNDAY, May 22, HOLY TRINITY

FOOD FIRST —Each Sunday the food collected goes

to support a local food pantry.

Mon, May 23 — 8th Week in Ordinary Time

Tue, May 24 — Weekday

Contemplative Prayer Group: 12:30-1:30

Wed, May 25 — SS. Bede the Venerable, Gregory VII,

Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi

Thu, May 26 — St. Philip Neri

Fri, May 27 — St. Augustine of Canterbury

Contemplative Prayer Group: 1:00-2:00

Sat, May 28 — St. Christopher Magallanes and

Companions

SUNDAY, May 29, CORPUS CHRISTI

FOOD FIRST —Each Sunday the food collected goes

to support a local food pantry.

Cardinal’s Appeal Update As of 5/14/16

Goal: $43,000

Pledged: $47,860.41

Paid: $44,650.41

Gifts: 103

Average Gift: $464.66

The Nature of

Grace, Evil, Sin,

Mercy and Grace Continued -

Eve sins. She turns away from the Creator and listens to

the creature. She doubts God and trusts the serpent. She chooses

her will before the will of God. It seems “good” to her: why can’t

she decide for herself what is good and evil? If she likes it and it

makes her happy then she can call it good (even if God has called

it evil), and if she does not like it, if it does not make her happy,

then she can call it evil and not do it again. She is free (or at least

so she might think). However, this is the lie of temptation. It pre-

sents evil as a good. It suggest we are free, and we cannot be free

if we are subject to God. We should be free to decide for our-

selves what is good and evil. Again, the lie of temptation: this is

not freedom but enslavement. We must remember God created us

free. His goodness never enslaves us because we are always free

to reject it, but this is not the essences of freedom. Freedom means

being free to pursue our greatest good and greatest happiness,

which is eternal happiness with God. God does not force us to

pursue this happiness. Evil, vice, sin on the other hand binds us

and enslaves us. It inhibits us from pursuing this happiness. Just

think for a moment: every virtuous and good deed is easy to walk

away from, but evil and vice are hard to give up. This is because

the power to do good and avoid evil comes from God’s grace. The

power to do evil is inherent in the freedom of our will. While be-

fore the fall Adam and Eve had every virtue and the power to do

extraordinary good because they were filled with God’s grace ha-

bitually in them, sanctifying them. That same grace always left

them free to say “no” to God’s grace. However, after the fall,

when that grace was lost, the power to do good and resist evil is

greatly diminished. That grace no longer lives in them. All they

will have after the fall is actual grace which is momentary, and if

not acted upon, it is lost. This grace does not dwell in them or

sanctify them.

Eve sins and what happens? Nothing! This is important

because it reveals an important truth on how God’s grace flows to

the world, not just in the time of Adam and Eve, but to this day. It

must be remembered that the story of Adam and Eve is laying the

foundations of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Both Adam and Eve

prefigure Jesus and the Church. Thus it is only in light of the Gos-

pel that we can better appreciate the meaning of Genesis. (Eve also

prefigures Mary; I will explain in a moment)

While Adam and Eve are “King and Queen” of creation,

having dominion over it, they are also priests in that God’s grace

will flow through them to all of creation. All Grace flows to crea-

tion from Adam and Eve and sustains it in its supernatural life--

characteristic of the Garden of Eden – Paradise. They have a royal

priesthood. However, Adam was made the High Priest. He was

chosen by God to be the instrument of God’s Grace to his wife

Eve. Before you get all excited and call this a “sexist” interpreta-

tion of Scripture, remember what I said earlier: Genesis must be

understood in light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is

the new Adam. All Grace flows from Jesus Christ. Without His

act of obedience to overturn the disobedience of Adam, Sanctify-

ing Grace would never be restored to the world. Eve’s sin did not

cause the fall of mankind because Grace flows from Adam. Mary,

the new eve gave her obedience to God and the Annunciation.

However, her obedience did not save us. God, in response to

Mary’s yes, became man in the person of Jesus Christ, the Second

Person of the Trinity. Jesus, in so doing, gives His obedience to

the Father in that He will not grasp at the Divinity (even though it

is His by nature and right) even to the point of death, death on the

cross. Jesus is the new Adam and overturns the disobedience of

the old Adam. Mary cooperated in an altogether singular way in

the work of redemption by her obedience, but it was still the obedi-

ence of Jesus that saves us. Eve cooperated in altogether singular

way in the fall of mankind by her disobedience, but it was still the

disobedience of Adam that brought about the fall of mankind.

When Jesus saved us, He went into the “sleep” of death.

At the time of His death, the soldier pierced His side with a lance

and out flowed blood and water. This symbolized the flow of

Grace and Mercy to the world. It also symbolizes the birth of the

Church. Just as Eve was formed from the side of Adam, so the

Church is formed from the side of Christ. The Church is the Bride

of Christ. Just as all grace flowed from Adam to his bride Eve, so

too all grace flows from Jesus to His bride the Church. Just as all

grace flowed from Adam and Eve to the world to sustain it in its

supernatural state, so too all grace flows from Jesus and His bride

the Church to the world to restore it to its supernatural state.

Let us return to Genesis and the sin of Adam and Eve. As

it was mentioned Eve sinned first and nothing happened. When

Adam took part in this sin, all “hell” broke loose (pun intended).

What is the nature of this sin? First, all sin is rooted in pride, the

desire to be one’s own God. Every sin is ultimately saying: “I

decide that this X is good, even though God has declared it evil.”

We may know it is not good for us over all, but we perceive a

good, even if momentary and miniscule, and we choose that good

over the greater good of God’s will. Every evil is disguised as

good. So it was for the sin of Adam. Second, every sin is an act of

disobedience to God – to will what God does not will, to choose

the creature over the Creator, to reject the greater Good for a lesser

good. There is nothing wrong with choosing a lesser good as long

as it corresponds to the permissive will of God and therefore is not

against the greater good of God’s will. We must trust God, as He

knows our greatest good and wills it for us. Every sin is a failure

to trust God. So it was for the sin of Adam. Adam and Eve’s sin

was a personal sin. They freely chose to turn away from God and

listen to the creature in an act of disobedience. In so doing, Adam

lost sanctifying grace for himself, for his wife Eve, and for all cre-

ation. This means that Adam, Eve, and all of creation will suffer a

loss. They will lose a share in God’s Life and Love, in God’s

Goodness. There will be an absence of Grace, and absence of

Goodness that, while not to the nature of creation, was willed by

God for creation. Since it is willed by God, but absent from it, we

can speak of an evil in nature itself. All of creation is fallen.

However, since the sins of Adam and Eve is committed in the

realm of space, time, and matter, the sin and the effects are not

definitive (Adam and Eve did not lose all grace), nor are all its

effects immediate. Some effects are immediate: the loss of Sancti-

fying Grace, the darkening of the intellect, and the concupiscence

of the flesh. Adam and Eve still will have actual grace so that all

might not be lost as it was for the fallen Angels.

In Jesus and Mary,

Fr. Vigilanti would like to thank and acknowledge the

parishioner who donated her mother’s graduation pin from the class of 1924 from the Academy of Mt. St. Ursu-la. Please contact Fr. Vigilanti at the Academy at 718-364-2125.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

There is a need for Pastoral Care Volunteers at Northern Westchester Northwell Hospital in Mt. Kisco. Interested persons, please contact Sonia Trew-Wisdom (Hospital Chaplin) at 914-666-1914.

SAVE THE DATE

Parish Annual Barbeque

June 18th at 6:00 p.m.

Confession at 4:00 p.m. Mass at 5:00 p.m.

Readings for the Week of May 22, 2016

Sunday: Prv 8:22-31/Ps 8:4-9/Rom 5:1-5/Jn 16:12-15 Monday: 1 Pt 1:3-9/Ps 111:1-2, 5-6, 9-10/Mk 10:17-27 Tuesday: 1 Pt 1:10-16/Ps 98:1-4/Mk 10:28-31 Wednesday: 1 Pt 1:18-25/Ps 79:8-9, 11, 13/Mk 10:32- 45 Thursday: 1 Pt 2:2-5, 9-12/Ps 100:2-5/Mk 10:46-52 Friday: 1 Pt 4:7-13/Ps 149:1-6, 9/Mk 11:11-26 Saturday: Jude 17, 20b-25/Ps 63:2-6/Mk 11:27-33 Next Sunday: Gn 14:18-20/Ps 110:1-4/1 Cor 11:23-26/ Lk 9:11b-17

Teen Life News

Thank you to all teens and adults who volun-teered at The Meatloaf Soup Kitchen.

World Youth Day Bake Sale - Please help support teens traveling to Poland for World Youth Day by either donating baked goods or purchasing them Mother's Day weekend.

Graduation Mass and Teen Life Year End Cele-bration- Please join us on Sun. May 22 to pray for our seniors who will soon be graduating and heading off to college. After this mass there will be a Teen Life celebration with music, food and games. We hope all Teen Life members will at-tend.

Steubenville retreat will take place June 24-26 at St Johns University. This was well attended last year and anyone interested in attending this year should contact Father Galens or Melissa Gor-don as soon as possible.

Outdoor Stations of the Cross - any teens interested in helping build the stations in early to mid May should contact Kieran Kenny.

Join Teen Life:

Any teens who have been confirmed and have not already joined teen life are encouraged to join by going to the St Patrick's website and filling out a registration form. When registering, teens should be sure to provide cell phone numbers to receive important text messages, and it is best to use ei-ther your Byram Hills email address or a gmail ad-dress so that you can regularly check the St. Pat-rick of Armonk Google Plus Communi-ty. So...how do you do that? You must provide a gmail address (students school email works!) asap. We will then send you an Invitation to join the google plus community you must "accept invitation". In order to find the invitation, you must have a google account, or gmail account. In your gmail make sure you check "All Mail" and/or "Social" or "Categories" to find your invitation to join. Sometimes it does not show up in the stand-ard Inbox. It is important that you do this asap as we would like to use Google Plus as a means of communicating. AOL, Verizon and others do not work with Google plus. Parents are welcome to join our Google Plus Teen Life Community but you too must provide us with a gmail address.

Please keep the Following in your Prayers

Lillian Ward Jeannie Morris

Eileen Sullivan Katerinna MacNeil

Jaspare Miranda Perinna Ruggerio

John Puttre Isabel D’Onofrio

Joy Lichten Teresa D’Onofrio

Patricia Tkach Isa D’Onofrio

Mario & Gloria Guiliano Caroline Pizzorusso

Sal & Barbara Grasso Nancy Mahoney

Paul Benfari Francis Roy Sedore

Katherine Dubiell Guy & Joni Mezzancello

Elsewhere in the Archdiocese

Spiritual Retreat

Offered by the Legionaries of Christ, the retreat is

based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

and is comprised of guided meditations, private reflec-

tion, Mass, opportunities for Confession and spiritual

direction.

Women’s Weekends: June 24-26 Retreat weekends

begin Friday at 5pm and end Sunday after 3pm Mass.

For more information call 914-244-3685 or go

twww.regnumchristny.org

Relic of St. Anthony of Padua

From the Pontifical Basilica, Padua, Italy

Fr. Paolo Floretta of the Franciscan Friars OFM

Conv will bring a first class relic of Saint Anthony

of Padua to the United States the week of his June

13th feast day. The relics will visit two churches in

Yonkers, NY on June 15th and June 19th.

June 15th: St. Ann’s Church, 31 College Place,

Yonkers, NY (914-965-4333); Veneration begins at 11

am until after the 7:30 pm Mass; Masses at noon and

7:30 pm

June 19th, Church of St. Anthony 10 Squire Ave.,

Yonkers, NY 914-965-2733; veneration before and

after each mass; Masses at 8 am, 10 am, and 12 noon.

Children’s Memorial Mass

You are cordially invited to the 22nd Annual Chil-

dren’s Memorial Mass on Saturday, June 4, 2016 at

11:00 a.m. at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 1377

East Main Street, Shrub Oak, NY. Rev. Fr . Joseph

Dietz, M.S.W., Pastor Emeritus of the Church of the

Magdalene, Tarrytown, NY will celebrate the Eucha-

rist as we join together to bear one another’s burdens

and pray to God for Comfort, Strength and Renewal.

Your beloved child’s name will be displayed in the

sanctuary. Light refreshments in the auditor ium

will follow the Mass. If a child’s name has never been

submitted for inclusion in this Memoria Mass, please

call the Parish Office at 914-528-3547 (Monday-

Friday, 9:30 am to 5 p.m.

Memorial Mass

at Mount Calvary Cemetery

An outdoor Mass will be celebrated at Mount Calvary

Cemetery (575 West Hillside Ave., White Plains, NY

10603) on Saturday May 28 at 9:30 am. The Mass

will be offered for all our beloved Faithful Depart-

ed. For your comfor t br ing a lawn chair .

If it rains, the Mass will be celebrated at St. John the

Evangelist Church in White Plains.

From The Archdiocese of New York

Couples Celebrating Their

50th Wedding Anniversary

Couples celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary

anytime during 2016 are invited to attend the Annual

Golden Wedding Jubilee Mass with Cardinal Do-

lan at the Cathedral of St. Patrick, Saturday, June

25th at 1:30 pm OR Sunday, June 26th at 2:00 pm.

Preregistration is required. Please contact your parish

for registration. The closing date to register for the

Mass is Tuesday, May 24th, 2016. This event is

sponsored by the Family Life, Respect Life Office of

the Archdiocese of New York.